Martinelli
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two petitions, filed in the Superior Court on May 25, 1914, one by Silvio Martinelli as the administrator of the estate of Umberto Alivernini, and the other by the same petitioner as the administrator of the estate of Settimio Angelini, each alleging ihat a claim for the death of the petitioner’s intestate in the course of his employment on August 8, 1913, was pending before the Industrial Accident Board, and praying that letters rogatory might be issued by the Superior…
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Two petitions, filed in the Superior Court on May 25, 1914, one by Silvio Martinelli as the administrator of the estate of Umberto Alivernini, and the other by the same petitioner as the administrator of the estate of Settimio Angelini, each alleging ihat a claim for the death of the petitioner’s intestate in the course of his employment on August 8, 1913, was pending before the Industrial Accident Board, and praying that letters rogatory might be issued by the Superior Court addressed to any court in the Kingdom of Italy having jurisdiction for the taking of depositions and that the…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
The petitioner, as administrator of the estates of two different persons, brings these applications in the Superior Court, praying it to issue letters rogatory for taking the testimony of witnesses in the Kingdom of Italy, to be used in the hearings on proceedings brought and pending before the Industrial Accident Board for the recovery of the payments provided by the workmen’s compensation act, St. 1911, c. 751, for the death of these two decedents.
Letters rogatory as a means of procuring the evidence of witnesses in foreign States are not much in use in this Commonwealth. The statutes make…
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